The team behind this lifting and filling comparison

Injectable and thread aesthetics · facial assessment · descent against volume loss

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.

Threads and filler are opposite corrections, and Dr. He does not present them as alternatives for the same problem. Her part of this site is the assessment that comes first: whether the cheek has moved downward or gone flat, whether the jawline has lost position or volume, how good the skin quality is, and therefore whether the finding should be lifted, filled, staged, or left to a surgical conversation.

Clinical focus

• Facial assessment that separates descent from volume loss before anything is placed
• Thread lift and dermal filler planning, and the honest limits of each
• Recognition and management of injectable complications, including vascular events
• Thread complications: dimpling, visibility, extrusion and their management
• Staged planning when a face has both descent and volume loss

Academic roles & achievements

• Member, Laser Medicine Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Facial Rejuvenation Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
• Member, Chongqing Plastic Surgery Quality Control Center
• Published 5 papers, holds 5 national patents, and introduced 2 new clinical techniques

Aesthetic surgery · facial rejuvenation · the surgical boundary

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

Where the tissue has descended substantially, or the skin has lost its elasticity and there is excess to remove, threads and filler are being asked to do a job they were not designed for. Dr. Mao's part is naming that boundary rather than adjusting the injectable plan around it.

Clinical focus

• Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry
• Honest referral when surgery outperforms a course of injections
• Shared case planning within the four-physician team

Plastic surgery · complex cases · revision

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team he provides the surgical perspective and the tertiary-hospital backstop — the assessment when an operation is the honest answer, and the hospital-level care for the rare complication that needs it.

Faces that have already been treated are the harder ones: the planes are altered, the record of what was placed may be incomplete, and a thread that has become infected or extruded needs a surgical answer. Dr. Wang is part of that pathway within a tertiary hospital.

Clinical focus

• Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review
• Surgical assessment when an operation is the honest answer to descent or excess skin
• Hospital-based care for the rare complication that needs theatre-level management

Dermatology · skin conditions · delayed reactions

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a dermatologist within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is medical skin assessment — diagnosing and managing pigment and barrier conditions, and treating skin that a device or an injection has irritated.

Not every change on a face is descent or volume loss. Skin disease, pigmentary change, inflammation and a delayed reaction to material placed months earlier are assessed on their own terms before anything further is planned.

Clinical focus

• Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans
• Diagnosis and management of pigment and barrier conditions
• Dermatologic care of skin after irritation or a delayed reaction